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===Help Conquer Cancer===
{{Main|Help Conquer Cancer}}

'''Help Conquer Cancer''' project (launched November 1, 2007<ref name="Help Conquer Cancer-WGR" />) is sponsored by the [[Ontario Cancer Institute]] (OCI), Princess Margaret Hospital and University Health Network of Toronto, Canada. The project involves [[X-ray crystallography]]. The mission of Help Conquer Cancer is to improve the results of protein X-ray crystallography, which helps researchers not only annotate unknown parts of the human proteome, but importantly improves their understanding of cancer initiation, progression and treatment.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/hcc1/viewHcc1Main.do
|title=Help Conquer Cancer research page on WCG
|publisher=Worldcommunitygrid.org
|access-date=2013-05-21
|archive-date=2007-11-16
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116095744/http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/hcc1/viewHcc1Main.do
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

The HCC project was the first WCG project benefiting from [[graphics processing unit]]s (GPU)s which helped finish it a lot earlier than initially projected due to the massive power of GPUs. In the April 2013 status report<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~juris/WCG/UPDATE-APR2013.pdf |title=Help Conquer Cancer April 2013 Update |access-date=2013-04-11 |archive-date=2013-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130417185421/http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~juris/WCG/UPDATE-APR2013.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> the scientists report there is still a lot of data to analyze but that they are preparing a new project that will search for prognostic and predictive signatures (sets of genes, proteins, microRNAs, etc.) that help predict patient survival and response to treatment.
The project finished in May 2013.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}